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20 Heller Oberösterreich
| Issuer | Land Oberösterreich (Province of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Green on buff paper Notgeld voucher. Left half bears a large numeral '20' below a vignette of a hilltop castle with church spires amid stylised foliage. The right half carries the issuing text in Gothic script dated 1921, with three manuscript facsimile signatures below. |
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| Reverse description | Green on buff paper. Central cartouche frames a vignette of a Baroque church tower amid townscape, flanked by two oval medallions — left with an Alpine landscape, right with a rural scene with cottage. Denomination '20' appears at lower left and right, with the legend in Gothic script along the lower border. |
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| Comments |
Austrian provincial notgeld of this period exists in enormous quantities, but the Upper Austria series from 1921 occupies a specific administrative moment: the post-war hyperinflationary pressure on small coinage had not yet resolved, and the individual Länder were still issuing their own emergency fractions well into 1921, even as the federal government was struggling to consolidate monetary authority under the newly established Oesterreichische Nationalbank, chartered that same year.
Jaksch catalog numbers for Upper Austrian notgeld reflect a large and methodically organized provincial series. This 20 Heller piece falls within that framework rather than standing apart from it.